Boot and shoe tree.



T. e. STEVENS '& c. WAKEFIELD.

BOOT AND SHOE TREE. APPLIOATION FILED JAN/9, 1908.

I 945,202. Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

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U ITED sTAT s PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS GEORGE STEVENS, 0F PAVENHAM, BEDFORD, AND CHARLES WAKEFIELD, OF

ROSHE'RVILLE, ENGLAND.

BOOT AND SHOE TREE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 1...... 4, 1910.

Application filed January 9, 1908. Serial No. 409,960.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it' known that we, THOMAS GEORGE STEVENS and CHARLES WAKEFIELD, subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Pavenham, Bedt'ord, England, and Burch road, Rosherville, Kent, England, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot and Shoe Trees; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art' to which it struct a tree or last to this invention.

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-springy toe piece a laterally the tension being obtained by a double system appertains'to make and use the same.

, According to this invention we are able to construct a boot or shoe tree or last in which an adjustable longitudinal stretching movement of the tree orlast is combined with a lateral expanding movement oi a We are also enabled whether or not the feature of adjustable longitudinal stretching of the tree or last is combined with .the teature of lateral expension of the springy toe piece, te'conwh1ch may be used vith boots or shoes of difl'e'rent sizes.

In the accompanying sheet of descriptive drawings :-Figure 1 is an elevation of a boot tree or last in which the feature of longitudinal stretching of the tree or last is combined with the feature of lateral expansion of the springy toe piece according Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the same.

Like letters apply to like parts throughout the figures.

formed in two pieces 0 and d and is extensible longitudinally and as re ards the double exof toggle levers operated at one point. The

main stem or toggle lever is formed in two parts a a. pivoted together at b and attached to. the spring toe and heel pieces a and d; The part a' that is attached to the heel end pivotall piece is formed double and embraces a fiattoned extension (1 of the piece a which is screw threaded at its other end and engages a swiveling nut e mounted in a swiveling link or bracket f connected with the spring toe a through the medium of links or toggles g sothat the boot is stretched both longitudinally and laterally. The flattened extension or operating end a, of the screwed stem at is slightly curved and is adapted when the toggle a a is in its extended position to rest against a stop It fixed between the double stem piece a and that arrests the lovers when the joining pivot b has just crossed over the straight line joining the pivots,at the other ends of the links that is just over the position of dead center.

It will be readily understood that by simply turning the screwed stem piece into or out of the nut 6 any desired adjustment of the tree may be obtained bo'th laterally and in length at one operation.

'We claim A shoe tree comprising in combination, an integral toe support of resilient material, a

heel member aving vertical and lateral extensions engagingthe heel portion, of the. .shoe and preventing movement of the heel member durin a plication and release of pressure, togg e eversflcomiected at their outer ends with said toe support to ex and the same, arigid toggle pivotally an adjustably connected with said toe support toggle and including a threaded-toggle member provided with an operating extension, and a U-shaped leaf sprmg having one end secured to said heel member and-the other gleand sli ably engaging said heel mem ber.

In testimony whereof we have aifixed our signatures, in'presence of two witnesses. THOMAS GEORGE STEVENS.

CHARLES WAKEFIELD. \Vitnesses:

CECIL D. WEBB,

H. D. Jameson.

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